Vigo Aircon Unit Explodes Shortly After BQuik Check

Report by Pattaya One News Team

 

 

PATTAYA: -- At 3pm, on the afternoon of September 7, Pattaya police and fire departments received reports of a car fire at the traffic lights on Sukhumvit Road and South Pattaya.

 

In the left-hand lane a Toyota Hilux Vigo had flames pouring out of the air conditioning unit and the entire dashboard had completely burned out before firemen could extinguish the blaze.

 

The car’s owner, forty-nine-year old Kemporn Saisang, later said that her son-in-law had been driving the car back from BQuik in South Pattaya after having some maintenance work done and a service, including a full service of the air conditioning unit.

 

Within five minutes of leaving the service centre the dashboard was on fire.

 

BQuik were also soon on the scene to try and identify the problem.

 

Investigating officers are, at this stage, assuming some sort of short circuit has occurred which has caused the fire. BQuik and the owner’s insurance company will now cooperate to compensate the car’s owner.

 

Source: http://pattayaone.net/pattaya-news/231431/vigo-aircon-unit-explodes-shortly-bquik-check/

 

-- © Copyright Pattaya One 2016-09-08

 

prolly filled with LPG instead of refrigerant.

They either over-pressurized (over filled) the refrigerant charge or used a flammable substance to clean the A/C system evaporator/internal ducting....or both.    

or its just this brand-new R32 (highly inflammable Difluoromethane) refrigerant with its numerous benefits to climate change 

Bquik may just explain everything !

BQuick tried to fix my A/C once and had no clue where to start, whilst at Isuzu they immediately recognized the problem...

.......or its just this brand-new R32 (highly inflammable Difluoromethane) refrigerant with its numerous benefits to climate change 

 

 

R32 in my opinion is rated as mildly flammable and not inflammable as stated do it is possible a fire caused by a gas leak.

Well he saved 200 Bht instead of using Toyota Service .


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....hard to get themselves out of this one....

 

...the question is...is there any legal reason they will pay for the damages....

 

...or will the car owner's insurance cover it...with no penalty to him....???

6 hours ago, Ralf61 said:

or its just this brand-new R32 (highly inflammable Difluoromethane) refrigerant with its numerous benefits to climate change 

 

Its strange but different organizations rate R32 completely differently, from "lower flammability" all the way up to "extremely flammable", it doesn't have a flash point anyway so it would need ignition and it has a high flame point but it is flammable, it hardly seems a sensible refrigerant for cars.  As for it's benefits to climate change according to Wiki, it is only ozone friendly, it has a global warming potential 675 times that of co2.

2 hours ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

.......or its just this brand-new R32 (highly inflammable Difluoromethane) refrigerant with its numerous benefits to climate change 

 

 

R32 in my opinion is rated as mildly flammable and not inflammable as stated do it is possible a fire caused by a gas leak.

 

Your opinion?

 

According to BOC it is an "extremely flammable gas"

https://www.boconline.co.uk/internet.lg.lg.gbr/en/images/sg_152-r32-difluoromethane-v1.51410_39651.pdf?v=2.0

4 hours ago, Shawn0000 said:

 

Your opinion?

 

According to BOC it is an "extremely flammable gas"

https://www.boconline.co.uk/internet.lg.lg.gbr/en/images/sg_152-r32-difluoromethane-v1.51410_39651.pdf?v=2.0

 Difluoromethane in a zeotropic (50%/50%) m/m mixture with pentafluoroethane (R-125) is known as R-410A, a common replacement for various chlorofluorocarbons (aka Freon) in new refrigerant systems, especially for air-conditioning

6 minutes ago, PeeJay1959 said:

 Difluoromethane in a zeotropic (50%/50%) m/m mixture with pentafluoroethane (R-125) is known as R-410A, a common replacement for various chlorofluorocarbons (aka Freon) in new refrigerant systems, especially for air-conditioning

 

Yeah, that's the old one that's in pretty much all air-conditioners these days, R32 is a newer one, it's just difluromethane and it's more environmentally friendly, but not by that much, but also somewhat flammable, not that it will of been in this car, it's use is very limited at the moment but is growing.

19 hours ago, Ralf61 said:

or its just this brand-new R32 (highly inflammable Difluoromethane) refrigerant with its numerous benefits to climate change 

Inflammable?

I'm not sure, but some years ago it was impossible to replace a coolant without replacing some crucial parts (e.g. sealings) as well. 

At least this was the case in the time when R12 (?) was replaced by the environmental "friendly" R134a. 

41 minutes ago, joepattaya1961 said:

I'm not sure, but some years ago it was impossible to replace a coolant without replacing some crucial parts (e.g. sealings) as well. 

At least this was the case in the time when R12 (?) was replaced by the environmental "friendly" R134a. 

a/c dont use coolant

Pedantic


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On 09/09/2016 at 7:04 AM, Grubster said:

Inflammable?

 

Inflammable and in flammable mean the same, the opposite of non-inflammable or non-flammable.